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marți, 23 decembrie 2014

The open source (node-based) compositor Natron has just seen it's official 1.0.0 stable release, and it contains a long list of improvements.
OpenFX-focused processing in a 32bit float linear color pipeline,
OpenColorIO-based color management, OpenImageIO-based support for DPX,
EXR, TIFF, PNG etc.
Natron has received many improvements since the last
published release candidate. You can see the change-log right here or in the About window within Natron.
This is the first stable release planned to be maintained.
The quick list of new features is:

much lower RAM footprint thanks to improved caching strategy;

new HSVTool node for color grading in HSV or color replacement, new HSVToRGB and RGBToHSV nodes;

new Saturation node to adjust just the color saturation;

new DiskCache node for caching a branch of a compositing tree to disk;

tracking is threaded now to deliver better performance.

The following features are included in the plans for Natron v1.1 and already almost implemented:

Optical flow: This will be integrated with a set of different
plug-ins handling motion vectors. The motion vectors will be generated
with a VectorGenerator node and used within several effects such as
Motion blur or Retiming.

’G’mic integration: G’mic is a full featured image processing
framework containing literally hundreds of effects. It will be proposed
as a separate OpenFX plug-in not distributed with Natron due to license
issues.

In the meantime, you can get more informations about the project and Natron more specifically in FAQ section.

luni, 22 decembrie 2014

Ashampoo Office 2010 is a powerful, efficient, yet easy to handle office
software that serves the needs of both private users and companies.
Create extensive documents fast and with total ease, streamline and
enhance your spreadsheets with meaningful charts, and grab your
audience’s attention with multimedia-based presentations.
With the word processor Ashampoo TextMaker, the spreadsheet Ashampoo
PlanMaker, and the presentation graphics program Ashampoo Presentations,
Ashampoo Office 2010 provides you with the most important applications
for home and office use alike.And best of all: you can simply install Ashampoo Office 2010 on a USB stick – and never leave your home without your office suite ever again
For portable version run: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Ashampoo\Ashampoo Office 2010\usbstick.exe or %ProgramFiles%\Ashampoo\Ashampoo Office 2010\usbstick.exe

miercuri, 17 decembrie 2014

My Music Collection provides you with an innovative way to organize and
manage your CDs, vinyl records and other media. This music collection
software is designed to meet the needs any kind of collectors – from
home users with large collections to professional DJs.
This music collection software provides options for adding either CDs
or vinyl records. Simply insert a CD and My Music Software will
automatically pull all information from several online databases. The
program also does an excellent job in searching through, filtering and
managing your music collection. You can create as many user-defined
tracking categories as you want, and attach as many of these as you want
to any CD, record or track.

marți, 16 decembrie 2014

Krita version 2.9, currently in public
beta, brings a long list of improvements to the paint package’s UI and
overall workflow, along with a revamped transform tool and a new colour
selector.
The Krita team has released the first public beta of Krita 2.9, the
latest release of the open-source paint package, adding a new Liquify
tool, a new colour selector, and a lot of workflow improvements.
Krita has been steadily adapting itself to a professional user base
in recent releases, adding support for OpenColorIO and the option to
export layered PSD files in version 2.6, and full Windows support in version 2.8.

New Transform tool, better brush tools, better colour handling
The most significant single feature is probably the revamped Transform
tool, which now supports Perspective, Cage and Liquify transformations.
There is also a new non-destructive transformation mask type.
Changes to the brush tools include better anti-aliasing and the
long-awaited separation of Flow and Opacity. Colour handling has also
been overhauled, with a new colour selector with sliders for every
colour model.UI improvements and file format support
There are also a lot of changes affecting overall workflow: the option
to open more than one image in a window, or the same image in multiple
windows, is one that many artists will find important.
The release also improves support for RAW and PSD files, with all but four PSD blending modes supported.
Photoshop layer styles and layer masks – a target of Krita’s successful recent Kickstarter campaign – are not suppported in version 2.9, but should follow by the end of January.Availability
Krita 2.9 Beta 1 is available now. Stable builds are available for Linux
and Windows; Mac OS X users get an unofficial build missing some
features, particularly in the brush engine.
Krita Sketch and Krita Gemini, which provide touch support on
suitable devices, have been disabled in the beta version, but should be
restated in the final release, which is due in January.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro is a complete, simple, and reliable
partition software and disk manager for Windows PCs and laptops. It
brings a set of powerful tools to maximize disk space use and improve
overall performance of your computer.

Audio Converter to MP3, M4A, WMA, WAV, AAC

Join Audio Files

Convert
multiple audio files at once or merge several tracks into one for an
endless playing. Make a medley free and easily with our music converter.
Merge two MP3 files, combine several WMA audio tracks, join any OGG or
FLAC files, etc.

miercuri, 10 decembrie 2014

Darktable is a free and open-source photography workflow application and raw developer similar to Adobe Lightroom. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It
manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through
a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance
them.
The new version 1.6 comes with a new Slideshow mode and some other interesting changes:

luni, 8 decembrie 2014

Tipard DVD to MP4 Converter works great in converting any DVD into MP4,
AVI, MOV and other popular digital video formats. After converting DVD
with this converter, you can enjoy your DVD movies on your computer with
video player. By selecting different profiles, you can even enjoy the
DVD movies on your mobile devices. It supports most popular media player
devices, including iPhone (iPhone 6/6 Plus/5/5s/4/4S/3GS), iPad (iPad
Air/Air 2/mini/mini 2/mini 3, etc.), LG phone, HTC phone, Samsung phone
(Galaxy series and Note series included), Sony Walkman, PSP, Creative
Zen, Zune, Xbox, etc. It is able to convert DVD to MP4, AVI, M4V, MOV,
WMV, FLV, 3GP, etc. and HD video formats including HD H.264, HD AVI, HD
MPEG 4, HD MOV, etc. This DVD to MP4 Converter provides you various
settings options which allow you to control the video quality you get
after converting.
If you want to enjoy the music in DVD disc on your music player, you
can also use this converter to convert the DVD to MP3, FLAC, AAC, AIFF,
WMA and other popular audio formats. After converting, you can enjoy the
DVD music on your music players. Also the settings allow you to define
the acoustic quality of the output audio file.
Besides the basic converting function, Tipard DVD to MP4 Converter is
an useful video editor which allows you to trim the DVD movie into
clips, merge several chapters into one, adjust the video brightness,
saturations, contrast, hue and add your own watermarks.

joi, 4 decembrie 2014

Sketch Drawer is a kind of photo editing software tool intended for
converting photographs to pencil sketches. This program enables users to
make usual photographs into exquisite pencil-drawn pictures, both
black-and-white and colored. While creating a pencil sketch, you can
choose your most preferred settings and options.
There are two ways you can edit photographs with SoftOrbits: manually
and by aid of ready-made presets. These presets can be used as guides
by beginners

miercuri, 3 decembrie 2014

Batch Inpaint is a batch version of Inpaint – photo processing and
retouching tool. While removing an unwanted object from a photo with
Inpaint is easy, it may still consume a lot of time if you have a whole
bunch of pictures to process. Batch removal of typical objects from
images is what Batch Inpaint is designed for.
Watermarks, time stamps, glitches, scratches, facial wrinkles, power
lines, persons accidentally caught by the camera in the very moment of a
shot and other things can be effortlessly erased from photos in
automatic mode.

vineri, 28 noiembrie 2014

PhotoDirector is an all-in-one photo editor and manager
that gives you complete control over your digital photography workflow with robust
tools.

Intuitive interface: PhotoDirector has a similar workflow and interface to Lightroom. Primary adjustment
and management tools are in menus aligned to the screen edges.
Manual-adjustment sliders give you incremental control over every aspect
of your photo file, from standard color-correction, brightness, and
noise-removal tools to more perspective-altering adjustments like lens
correction. Filtered management: Get as basic or as granular as you please
in organization. You can manage your photo gallery through tags and
labels, and you can sort by flags, color, edit status, and stacks. Performance: Version 5 takes advantage of 64-bit
processor-powered machines, which is critical for loading images at
higher resolutions, especially when entering Retina and 4K territory.

joi, 27 noiembrie 2014

Unity is a cross-platform game creation system developed by Unity Technologies, including a game engine and integrated development environment (IDE). It is used to develop video games for web sites, desktop platforms, consoles, and mobile devices. First announced only for Mac OS, at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in 2005, it has since been extended to target more than fifteen platforms. It is now the default software development kit (SDK) for the Nintendo Wii U.

Unity UI: Flexible, faster, full visual control

Create at speed

The new UI system is leaps ahead of the old, it’s easy to build
what you want and do it quickly with little or no coding necessary. Get
all this out of the box:

Fast and flexible workflows

Low memory allocations and high performance

Easy multiplatform deployment

Unique animation capabilities

Fully optimized

With batching, texture atlasing and the new canvas component,
we’ve come up with the optimal solution to allow your UIs to execute
quickly on GPUs. Draw calls are kept low and performance remains high
across all supported Unity platforms and device resolutions.

Intuitive layout tools

Laying out and resizing elements is easy with the new Unity UI.
Design detailed layouts using the Rect Transform layout tools, and
automate grids of UI elements with our built-in components.

Flexible anchoring

Take advantage of simple visual tools to anchor UI elements.
The UI element maintains its anchored position regardless of changes to
parent size or screen resolution. Want to anchor different elements
relative to different positions on the canvas? No problem.

Smooth resizing

You can set UI elements to stretch along with the parent
rectangle, or to maintain fixed margins inside it. In addition, each
side of a UI element can be anchored individually, allowing you to set
up sophisticated layouts without scripting.

Get animated

Animation plays a key part in your new UI workflow for creating
dynamic layouts with slick transitions. Animate any part of your UI
layouts, from bouncing buttons to animated material properties for
detailed motion.

Get started...

To discover how the new Unity UI system can kickstart your game interface, check out the many UI tutorials on our Learn site.
For indepth information on all the new features, see the release notes.

Comparison Free vs. Pro version:

Free alternatives:

http://www.panda3d.org - Panda3D is a game engine, a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs.
Panda3D is Open Source and free for any purpose, including commercial ventures.

New features since 4.1

RawTherapee-4.2 includes many speed,
precision, stability and memory usage optimizations. As such, users of
32-bit operating systems may now find that they can enjoy more stability
while using the most memory intensive tools. Of course users of 64-bit
systems benefit from this as well. Refer to the full changelog for more
information.

Freedom for Free

RawTherapee is free and open source software, meaning you can use it free of charge, wherever you like on whatever hardware you like, as long as you abide by the copyleft GPLv3 license. Download the source code, modify it, feel free to do what comes to mind. We believe in open software.

Easy audio mixer is a multi track editor designed for average users. With
it, you will be creating your own audio projects even if you never used
a multi track editor or a mixer.
If you need to create presentations, podcasts, or even music… This software has all tools to make your work stand over the rest.

luni, 24 noiembrie 2014

PT Photo Editor is an efficient application designed to edit photos like
a professional in an easier and faster way. You can easily correct
color cast and exposure problem, remove imperfections, do quick
selective editing and much more.

Main functions:

Easy to use editing tools such as blemish removal, red-eye correction, clone and heal tool;

miercuri, 19 noiembrie 2014

Microsoft has plans to work with developers in the community to bring the .NET platform to both Linux and Mac OS.
The importance of embracing community contributions was one of the key
discussion points in Microsoft's preparations in going open source with
the server side of .NET.

Ashampoo Burning Studio 2014 is a fully streamlined DVD and Blu Ray
burning suite. Its user friendly interface allows the creation of data
and music discs, quick backup copies, and virtual disc images. You can
even erase and format old unwanted DVDs with only a few commands.

luni, 10 noiembrie 2014

Blackmagic Design has released Fusion 7 limited edition for free.
It lacks some of advanced features like optical flow and the
stereoscopic 3D toolset, along with support for OpenFX plugins, but you
do get all of the keying, retiming and colour-management tools.
Network rendering is disabled, and output is limited to Ultra HD resolution, but it’s still a powerful piece of kit.Price of the commercial edition slashed
Like DaVinci Resolve, the full version of the software – now renamed
Fusion Studio – has itself been repriced at $995: a significant drop
from its original $2,495, and a fraction of the cost of Nuke, its
principal competitor.
In the past couple of years, Resolve has played a disruptive role in
the grading market, with many smaller studios electing to build
pipelines around the software instead of more expensive turnkey systems.
The parallels aren’t exact: although price is a common complaint for
freelancers, Nuke is a fraction of the cost of a Quantel or SGO system,
and The Foundry is taking steps to make it more accessible to students.
But still, making a powerful, movie-capable 3D compositing package
available for under $1,000 is bound to shake up the market – as is
making a version of that package available for free to students and
freelancers.
It will be fascinating to see where Blackmagic takes Fusion next – and how The Foundry responds.
See a comparison chart for the free and $995 editions of Fusion 7Download the free edition of Fusion 7 (Windows only)

vineri, 7 noiembrie 2014

Process Lasso is a process priority optimization and system automation
utility. Although Lasso offers a plethora of advanced rules and
features, you need not be a tech whiz to use it. As soon as you install
Lasso, without any further action, it’s ProBalance technology will
immediately start restraining CPU hogs to help your PC retain
responsiveness during high CPU loads.
Process Lasso’s most popular feature is the unique process
optimization technology called ProBalance (Process Balance) that will
improve your PC’s responsiveness and stability through process priority
optimization and/or CPU affinity adjustments. In addition to ProBalance,
there are countless features allowing the user to take full automated
control of the processes on their PC. You can have a wide range
operations performed, or settings applied, each time a process is run.
Core optimization technologies allow you to choose on what CPUs/cores a
process should run, as well as what their CPU priority class and I/O
priority class should be.New In Version 7: This most recent major version has
seen the addition of ‘ProBalance Insights’, a GUI that allows the user
to see cumulative ProBalance activity on a per-process basis. There has
also been a considerable amount of product refinement, resulting in a
more efficient and reliable offering.

marți, 4 noiembrie 2014

Pixlr (Autodesk) is a cloud-based set of image tools and utilities, including a number of photo editors, a screen grabber browser extension, and a photo sharing service. The suite was intended for non-professionals, however the apps range from simple to advanced photo editing. It can be used on PCs (Windows, Mac), and on smartphones or tablets using a mobile app (Android, iOs).

The Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 5 is the intelligent tool for that certain
something in your photos! All functions are clearly arranged and easily
accessible. A long search for your desired function or favorite effect
is a thing of the past! Those functions and effects can now be accessed
instantly, as the program allows you to integrate up to 6 of your
favorite functions directly within the user interface to keep them handy
anytime.
This allows you to achieve amazing results right from the start. Add
brilliance and refinement to your pictures in just a few clicks!

duminică, 2 noiembrie 2014

Shotcut is a free and open-source video editing app for Windows, Linux and MacOs.The new version 14.11 of Shotcut is now available for download with the following enhancements in addition to the usual bug fixes:

The HTML5 features are finally available on Windows!

Add source code editing to the HTML editor.

Add 3D Text filter based on WebGL, typeface.js, and three.js.

Add support for DirectShow devices on Windows in the Open Other dialog.

Add support for the #localtime# keyword to the Text filter (no button yet).

Restart instead of simply closing the app when changing the GPU or language settings.

Change the Redo keyboard shortcut to Ctrl+Y on Windows only.

Save file paths in MLT XML with relative names for assets in the
same folder or sub-folder. This makes it easier to use a relocatable
project folder.

Add scale and offset parameters and a preset widget to the Rotate
filter. Usually after rotating a video, part of the image has been
clipped. These new parameters provide control for that clipping
processing including no clipping.

sâmbătă, 25 octombrie 2014

The conversion speed of WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe has made a great
leap to amazingly 300-400 fps or more in recent update, while keeping
highest possible quality. Far beyond that, it manages to be:

one of the first video audio software to support the breakthrough
H.265/HEVC video encoding tech that is reported to double the data
compression ratio and support 8K UHD videos (up to 8192×4320
resolution);

vineri, 17 octombrie 2014

TDMore DVD Converter is a powerful DVD video converter software that
works as a DVD ripper to rip DVD disc/ISO/folder into different video
formats such as MP4, MKV, WMV, FLV, AVI, VOB, TS, etc for almost all
popular video playback devices such as iPhone, iPad, PS3, Xbox, tablets,
smart phones and so on. Moreover, it supports 3D video conversion and
H.265 encoder.

Hardware acceleration enabled to make the conversion faster (within 15 minutes according to test).

Please note: the program includes one year license.Note: The best 3 improvement ideas will be rewarded with 3
TDMore Blu-ray Converter 1 year license. Please use Idea Informer form
to submit your ideas.

luni, 13 octombrie 2014

Inpaint reconstructs the selected image area from the pixel near the
area boundary. Inpaint may be used unwanted objects from your photos.
Delete any unwanted object from your photo, such as extra power-line,
people, and text.
The programs will automatically Inpaint the selected area to erase
it. If some unexpected object spoils an otherwise good photograph,
Inpaint may be used to remove it. Simply select the object. No need for
fiddly messing about with the clone tool. It is alarmingly simple to
use. Draw a selection around the object you wish to remove from the
picture, and run smart remove selection.

imElfin Blu-ray Creator helps you create high quality Blu-ray and DVD
from all video formats, like MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, etc. With the help of
this tool you can not only burn your videos to Blu-Ray, but also to 3D
DVDs.
It provides dozens of Blu-ray movie menu templates: Standard,
Business, Education, Holiday, Nature and more. What’s better, it
contains an inner media player for you to preview videos real-time, and a
build-in video editor for you to crop, watermark, adjust your files.
After Blu-ray created, enjoy them on the biggest screen in your house!

joi, 9 octombrie 2014

AVS Video Editor is powerful video editing software which can create
hollywood-like videos with photos, videos and music. The program has a
user-friendly interface and is available in many languages (German,
French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, etc.). It is packed with a lot of
useful features and easy tools. AVS Video Editor is designed for both
beginners and advanced users.Key Features: